bluth geopolitical conflicts from the perspective of iconic hotels on the frontlines and former south african president jacob zuma goes on trial for corruption may on al-jazeera. pan. al-jazeera. hello i'm come out santa maria welcome to this news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. about 1.4. 140000000. which is. a strenuous defense from india's ruling party as covert 19 spreads unabated and while the

government talks up its policies we're finding the extraordinary stories of people supporting one another while the pandemic rages on. also in the news the search for the missing in mexico city after a bridge collapses plunging a metro train into a busy road 23 people have been killed we'll have a live update on that. i'm natasha in west and from the french president says he's a climate change leader but his critics say he's new green is a disappointment. i'm devon ash with the sport manchester city take off against paris in an hour looking to make the champions league final for the 1st time and tickets indian premier league has been suspended indefinitely after more current a virus cases among teams.

another 350000 plus deaths 3 and a half cases that is 3000 deaths again india's covert situation barely changes from day to day at the moment and yet a senior member of the governing body j.p. party has told al jazeera this tuesday the government can't be blamed for the current surge you will hear part of that interview in a moment after we look at some numbers as they stand right now from johns hopkins university on the left the main one. as i say 357000 new cases today and those almost 3 and a half 1000 dead so if we put that in context there are 222000 deaths and now upwards of 20000000 confirmed cases so those are the numbers there and if we take a look at the reuters track here which just gives us the different visualisation let me zoom that one if you go back to here look at that fairbridge 251-6000 almost 17000 fiction's that's not long ago and look at that upward trend up to this point

here where we're talking in excess of 350000 infections it has happened so quickly and so you'll hear the reaction from the government in a moment but we'll start things off with this report from elizabeth piron in new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm for 5 going to have a raid going to get out that. have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly because there are only 45 police were performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances carrying bodies of cord 19 big tents outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead

ignoring the basic precautions including mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there is anger at the government for continuing its expensive project to build a new parliament and prime minister's residence we're in new delhi where there was a very strict lockdown in place and only essential services are allowed but the construction of the government's multi-billion dollar rebuild of the central city is going ahead despite objections from opposition parties and activists architect vast the law is one of many people who filed petitions against the project last year saying it was unnecessary expensive and violated all environmental regulations . a little. insensitive to. mention in such a rush you know

a war. for political purposes i don't think that's actually going in development. medical experts say the government's entire focus should be on getting the pandemic under control i've been speaking to some senior policymakers. and many of them have a mental model that this will all turn around. and i have been trying to say that everything goes very well. things will be horrible for the next several weeks. international aid has been arriving in india for nearly a week but 6 states including delhi said they get to receive any of it a children's hospital in the capital of the latest to say it only has a few hours of oxygen left elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi so let's play a part of this interview from before with sudan's mittal a senior member of india's governing bodies spoke to peter w. peter began by asking him if quite simply the government was to blame for the

crisis. the extent of the mic would not have been there. anybody. who would wait because the long view of the situation. everybody given the fact that yes it's a huge population i thought is actually just concerning. everybody in recognition but right now. and how it is affecting people exactly something we are all facing insulation i think is a study of if you really are going to see when you look at our population which is 1600000000 the solution lark if you become ok can i just thought you then for a 2nd so if i made 2 points point number one india has not done everyone when it comes to vaccinating your population that is simply an untruth that you are repeating that you think hang on stop point to point number 2 point number 2 when

it comes to mr modi the prime minister mid to late april he goes on national television he says it is under control he says normality is just around the corner but was never ever going to be the case firstly you said that. about 1.414. how did in 40000000. which is the decade of exploration program as a percentage of the population as a percentage of the population so you are not it doesn't matter you are not you are simply not at the leading edge of vaccinating a population that you have not been let me finish the point you have not been not nor are you because you are you are running out of vaccines. so i couldn't really got a vaccine because you want to believe this you want to keep that not country which the infrastructure has successfully done 140000000 bucks missions and you think

that's something that's what it accomplished i mean i am i'm missing that what kind of mindset that you want to find the president i mean india should have been applauded for the fact that while the investor good has been able to find the solutions we were also along with them to find out an old solution for the. one like centers from. these vaccinations lights yes this morning sack human this all krishna look at how it does look on people mice these parameters but that's that part we have challenges and here's an issue i think this is this challenge is you said that the prime minister sake if you think it's going to was only because yes there was a time bill because look this is a deadly drastic decree not yet creating in unfamiliar territory is there a lot dissidence a super donor in this is that we're. so much politics there isn't there and so much

trauma as well in india's coronavirus catastrophe but you know there are a lot of good stories as well indians who are innovating who are fund raising who are collaborating all with the aim of keeping their compatriots a live shot at bella's has their stories. kermie works for a pharmaceutical company in mumbai but it's on the streets where he thinks he can save more lives he's been working since he was the same age as many of these children he wants to help them right now that means handing out masks. and every time. i go to see children and adults in different costumes with great messages about global awareness today i have breast of a joke or a joke for happiness but we live in such times. as covert 19 chokes india it is the humanity of indians often strange is keeping its people in life on the outskirts of new delhi seek full interiors have set up this free oxygen camp

a new patient arrives every 20 minutes. we believe that no one should die just a lack of oxygen it's a small thing but nowadays is the one thing everyone needs the situation is such that if it was made available to the code in 1000 patients it would survive. in every city village street corner the healthy news the sick in coppola mohammed can witness children carrying their parents on the backs to hospital so he sold his wife's jewelry and turned his rickshaw into an ambulance. very early on a critically ill patient cannot be brought to the hospital without oxygen support so i thought why not turn my 3 wheeler into an ambulance it's not a space uses and i wouldn't but it can surely saves lives. shahnawaz shaikh gave up his vehicle selling it to buy oxygen for strangers in the last year he supported

more than 4000 people in mumbai the military are given little i decided to sell my car to raise funds to buy oxygen cylinders and provide oxygen to people who are unable to find hospital beds so their lives come saved with the help of books. one of those lives is milk cans mother. of 3 was little shahnawaz has helped me a lot he has already given me 2 cylinders it's thanks to him that my mother is able to stay home and breathe with the aid of oxygen. yet in a country of nearly 1400000000 it's people are increasingly working as one unified in their fight for collective survival uncuffed is an organization of dozens of teenage is trying to fill india's gets in health care crowdsourcing medical supplies through social media you are working on 11 o'clock in the morning with your guy in midnight where. suad tar has her exams coming up but for her

and many others the real test is finding a way to keep their people alive shallop bellus al-jazeera the philippines has begun its rollout of the sputnik vaccine after receiving its 1st batch from russia on saturday from one health workers to the 1st to receive it 15000 doses being distributed in 4 cities in the capital region philippines is also negotiating the purchase of a further 20000000 sputnik the doses for this year tanzania's new president who has son is following through with her promise to drastically change the government's covert response travelers from countries with new variants will have to present negative tests and undergo a 2 week quarantine that's a big shift from the late president john michael foley who discourage the use of face masks and described vaccines as a western conspiracy. to brazil which is facing a new challenge in its battle against covert 19 it appears that many have had their 1st starts of the vaccine haven't shown up for the 2nd one. has more from rio de

janeiro. brazilians had to wait much longer than expected to get their vaccines the mass inoculation campaign in latin america's largest country got off to a late and rocky start in mid january so far only 15 percent of the population has received the 1st dose according to media consortium. 6 percent of those lucky ones never showed up for the 2nd shot. to be including me i almost didn't i had to take an inside the pill to make it here for my 2nd shot of astra zeneca i was so scared as were many standing in line with me we were hearing all these stories about blood clots and now i'm glad i came. doctors say that some people have not come back because they forgot or simply thought that one shot was enough. being either block of information into fake news spread by

thoughts who deny the pandemic part of the problem but we are also facing problems with the 2nd dose because of poor government planning. 16 states have run out of china's corona vaccine one of the 2 most used in brazil many showed up for their 2nd dose only to be told they were none. have a portion and they told me to return another day but will there be any war. it's an embarrassment this is a joke for those bloody politicians. doctors and scientists blame former health minister and why do we have will for the problem. you see as your programme of the health ministry instructed mayors and governors to use all their supplies to speed up the delivery of 1st dose instead of telling them to see a part of the stock to go into the 2nd dose the government was hoping more faxes would arrive in time that did not but there have been delays in the delivery of

vaccines and of supplies to produce them locally india one of brazil's main suppliers is at the center of the epidemic now in dealing with a health catastrophe but brazil has just received the 1st batch of 1000005 doses the lack of planning will be discussed this week by the senate committee investigating the government's handling of the pandemic former health minister abbas will be called to testify on wednesday. he will be asked to explain why brazil took so long to accept pfizer's offer to begin providing millions of doses last year doses that only just started to arrive meineke an i.q. of al-jazeera rio de janeiro. so let's go big picture now and. very pleased to welcome david nabarro to al-jazeera special envoy for covert 19 for the world health organization with us from geneva and we thank you for your time i know you're very busy man so we appreciate it look india is where we obviously have to

start at the moment really want to look at the issue of vaccination there i keep hearing that india is the biggest producer of vaccines in the world and yet it's vaccination program is well 2 percent of the population is vaccinated so far in your opinion what is going wrong there or is it just the fact it's a huge population mr barak can you hear me it's come all santa maria here yes oh brilliant sorry i. don't know if you heard my introduction there we were just welcoming you to our 0 to thank you for your time i wanted to talk about india 1st of all how the fact that it is the world's biggest producer of vaccines but is only managing to vaccine about 2 percent of the population at the moment well i mean let's just consider the numbers. are we are in a situation where there is a need to. limit giora to the world's population against this borrows

and. bindiya is a very large country with. a significant proportion of the world's population and india is the major pack cian producer but it is also been generously making back scene a bailable to other countries and i think we just need to recognize that there are just new to not back seem to go around i mean i have to be clear that back to nation alone is not enough to reduce the risks associated with this pandemic right now vaccination can save the lives of all the people who are risking the lives of people without the diseases like diabetes. does india almost have to get a bit selfish now almost and say well we are a big producer and we've got

a big problem here as you say it won't it won't make the problem go away overnight but they need to look after the domestic population 1st while yes of course i think that that that's a reasonable point of view my suggestion is that in india as in every other country whatever back seen is a bailable needs to go to the people who are most at risk of severe illness and death the back seems like an immunological shield that protects those most at risk so what i would like to encourage all nations to do in this situation of extreme vaccine shortage in our world is to prioritize anybody wherever they live in the world anybody who's in the high risk category we know who they are we know why they intend to get ill and die i mean it is quite extraordinary that in today's

world we can be vaccinating relatively healthy and not a risk adults per various reasons whilst in some parts of the world some countries people who have got high susceptibility cannot get access to bank scenes and are suffering now in a in a normal situation certainly people like myself would would look at this and say look in in a situation of action shortage given that everybody has the same fundamentally the same level of risk in the world and let's just concentrate on the people who are most likely to succumb when that would be the normal. i believe ethical reaction of anybody to this situation by sight of the surgeon interrupted the w.h.o. i believe is reviewing chinese vaccines at the moment 2 different points will that

potentially make a difference sooner rather than later if those ones come on line and get approval for so many really really are hopeful that more vaccines will come on line and get approval. and it's great that the chinese candidates are being looked at very very important w.h.o. does look back seems. there are 2 things that it has to do one is to examine the actual back train itself and how it works and the 2nd is the battery where the back scene is made there's a need for what's called a good manufacturing practice certificate and the reason for this is that the last thing in the world anybody wants to do is to have vaccines the course side effects and so the effort is put in place to absolutely minimize the risk of side effects right and i think that they coming on stream of more back seems highly desirable it will be a very close scrutiny are they of the manufacturing or no close scrutiny of the

backs in clinical trials and hopefully they will get approved and then that will greatly increase the availability of vaccines more generally i'm delighted there is also mr barr the issue of the patents and those who have called for them to be made public very released so basically that producers could get going and actually start producing it's a lot faster while that yeah go ahead. the un are and i want to say that i would love to see every single possible way of increasing vaccine production put in place now and if one of those is truly the release of patents on backings i'd like to see that examined. there is another approach to making medicines more widely available and that's cobol or tree licensing where a manufacturer offers the license to someone else not necessarily for cash and

certainly the manufacturers of current vaccines are very prepared and have said that they're prepared to license to others and i think one of the facts that we have to really be clear on amongst ourselves is that it's not possible to just set up a battery manufacturing plant anywhere right from scratch and have it working straight away these are super sophisticated products they need to be produced in a very careful way and so yes i want more backings to come on stream but i want them to be the best possible quality and so i'm keen for licensing scaling up but same time every bit of attention that we possibly can to make sure that the vaccines work and the backings of sound david navarro is the world health organization's special envoy on covert 19 we thank you very much for your time. tonight very good to talk with you very very swishes thank you.

i. will move on to other news and one of mexico's worst train disasters in recent years the president is demanding on since at least 23 people have been killed after an elevated metro line collapsed sending a train crashing down on to cars below president under arrest manuel lopez obrador said the investigation should be done quickly and that nothing should be hidden from the public let's check in with mom in mexico city and i'll do you know anything new about the same incident unfortunately the latest information from authorities here in mexico is that the death toll has now climbed to 24 with dozens of other injuries many of those very serious injuries what we know is what we saw at the scene of the accident only a few hours after we arrived yesterday evening and what we saw from that security

surveillance footage that shows the moment where that train car passing over that elevated overpass for the rail line collapses over a busy freeway pinning at least one vehicle underneath you saw those images of the 2 train cars hanging precariously over that over that freeway now today what we've seen is emergency crews who have been working overnight to remove those 2 train cars and clear that area but until now we know that authorities have confirmed 24 people have died we've heard from the red cross that there are still potentially as many as 6 bodies that are still trapped in part of that wreckage in authority as are still working on identifying those bodies what more is being said by authorities and political leaders i mean i mentioned the president there who was unequivocal about this investigation. correct the president is over the lot of you gave his condolences promise that an investigation would be forthcoming we also heard from mexican foreign minister

marcel abroad who was mayor of mexico city at the time that the rail line was built offering his service an input we heard from the current mayor of mexico city claudio who's also promised an independent transparent or a good investigation would be forthcoming what's interesting that we're seeing today on mexican social media is the number of people who are posting photographs of alleged structural failures of infrastructure problems along the mail the rail line in other parts of mexico city of pointing to the fact that neighbors in this where the where this accident took place along this section of rail line had already reported to authorities that there were structural problems and that they were afraid that a collapse could be imminent thank you money that updates on the train crash in mexico city the french far right leader mclean the pen has been acquitted of breaking hate speech the rules the pen was charged in 2015 after she

posted islamic state atrocities on her twitter account her lawyers say the verdict is a victory for freedom of expression opinion polls show the pan as a possible challenger to president among your mccrone in next year's election. still in france the lower house of parliament there has approved a new climate change bill a minor micron's trying to slash greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a deadline in 2030 but the reports environmental groups say it doesn't go far enough. the high speed train from paris to the western french city of non takes 2 and a half hours people can also fly between the 2 cities but that is set to change under french president emanuel mackerels new climate law some short internal flights will be banned to help lower carbon emissions so this is one of 5 intercity journeys in france which will now only be possible by road or train. the climate law aims to reduce carbon emissions in france by 40 percent by 2030 with measures targeting

industry food and housing it will also encourage grassroots projects like this wind farm located an hour from now and it's financed and code by nearly $400.00 local residents and a renewable energy company and the traditional will change everything but at least we consider it as a good 1st step towards a model where we have more and more course we want to take on the energy transition and invest in that kind of things micron has made tackling climate change a presidential priority some scientists say that parts of coastal frogs could be submerged by rising water levels by the end of the century throughout his presidency emanuel micro has projected an image of himself as a nida in the fight against climate change for his supporters the new know is proof of his ambition but others say that it fails to respond to the climate emergency

not as a reputation for innovative environmental policy the deputy mayor says michael snow's disappointing because it doesn't do enough to cut carbon emissions the urgency to repeat here we have 10 years to really radically change things and now we're just continuing to take little steps forward that in fact will move us backwards will you more called was part of a citizens council set up by microsoft to come up with proposals for the climate law he says the govern. antic nord many of the council suggestions because of pressure from industrial lobby groups we should not lose hope about climate action but definitely what happened here is the missed opportunity to do something big green parties are on the rise in france and climate change is expected to be a key issue in next year's presidential election the sense among many environmental campaigners though is the mackerel this missed a chance to win their support natasha bottler al-jazeera western france still ahead

for you on this news hour 50 days of hunger strike that supporters of a detained type protest leader now fear for his health just 6 months since ethiopians taken a region became a battleground in the fighting and atrocities are ongoing here from refugees about their experiences and shows a marine you know no longer unemployed we'll tell you which club but the portuguese manager is joining me now. from. hello there we had some wild weather roar across areas of oman it was all because of this cloud deck here and we got just the right shift in wind producing these serious storms in moscow on monday with those winds whipping around we had to brief lying across the road here too thankfully that driver was ok so here's

a picture as it looks on wednesday might see an outbreak of some of that severe weather toward the border of oman and the united arab emirates elsewhere across the middle east unsettled through the border of turkey and you draw and precipitation what weather in store for northern areas of afghanistan for central africa looks like this this organized moisture just offshore from kenya it doesn't look like it's pushing on shore just yet some heavier downpours of rain through the democratic republic of the congo rate in to grab on that will be the story on wednesday for the western cape we're seeing a pretty good push of moisture for cape town on wednesday this trend will continue as well a lot of rain we're seeing in angola in store for wednesday as well ok here's a picture on thursday because still wet weather will be plaguing cape town 21 degrees the high and those unsettled conditions persist.

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but we're not most people. rude. oh. oh. on the news i'm here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories india's official count of corona virus infection since the start of the pandemics pandemic has a past 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surgeon infections been blamed on government as management and more contagious baryons seems meanwhile india's governing party to be j.p. is insisting it's not to blame for the crisis senior members told al-jazeera the government couldn't have anticipated the severity of this 2nd wave. of mexico's president has ordered an investigation into one of the country's worst trying to

sauces and recent years at least 23 people killed in an overpass collapsed. protest against president economic policies have continued in colombia's 3rd largest city cali violent confrontations between protesters and the police several people have been killed in these demonstrations which were over a proposed tax reform the country's finance minister resigned on monday. he's in bogota following this one for us alexander another night of unrest deaths injuries again bring us up to date. yes come miles the worst of the violence was in that 2 working class neighborhoods of the city. just a terrifying night there with a massive operation by the police and the army moving in after 9 pm to break up

a number of demonstrations and protests we've seen videos shot by local residents that appears to show the police shooting at times in the screaming at least against. civilians the people protesting there in the end at least 5 people were killed 33 injured many of them by gunshots and the mayor of cali says that at least 80 people are still unaccounted for a very very worrying situation this is one of the biggest crisis that colombia has been through in years the human rights organizations both in colombia and internationally are calling for the president to by and do it to do more to defuse this situation is to do something to control the police and as you were saying in your introduction these protests started the end gains tax side about have now been a. huge national cry against the elites in this country and they say at this point

also against the security forces and the police. the funds minister resigned the president withdrew the tax reforms those are concessions but . for the government to do more. yeah definitely that is the case and again because everybody knows what the reasons for d.c. protests really are in and has to do with the fact that colombia's one of the most unequal countries in the world these issues have been simmering for years but i think it's fair to say that the cove aids pandemic has just exacerbated this reality and now the proposal of increasing taxes that was just the last straw for many people did the genie is out of the bottle in many ways and so what we're seeing is that these protests will continue and the response by the government the

head of the the president opening and it go she ating table with the protesters was to say and then the police and the army and now the most extreme parts. of the president party are asking him to put in place a state of siege so it doesn't seem like there are at least for now the kind of situations in place to try and calm this situation this despite there are more and more international calls to do so coming from the united nations from some u.s. representative and from there. you thank you alexander i'm sorry going to leave you there just to hear the white house giving a statement on vaccines more group over 220000000 shots. as we stand here today almost 150000000 americans have gotten least one shot. over

$105000000.00 americans are fully vaccinated and among our most vulnerable population seniors remarried 85 percent of those who got in their 1st shot 70 percent of the seniors are now fully vaccinated it's a dramatic turnaround from where we were in january when less than 2 percent of adults and less than one percent of seniors refused vaccinated ali that cases are down and 40 states these past 2 weeks deaths are down dramatically since january down over 80 percent among seniors which includes a drop among hispanics of 80 percent among african-americans of 70 percent of seniors there are tens of 1000 marriages alive today because who would not be alive otherwise were they not had access to rapid vaccination program moms and dads sisters and brothers grandparents neighbors old friends there around now and god

thank god for that now where do we go from here well as we anticipated the pace of the vaccination is slowing not of the majority of american adults have already gotten their 1st shot but we're still vaccinating millions of americans every day and fact the last 10 days one out of every 10 adult americans got a shot but soon will have reached the adults who are most eager to get vaccinated and at that point this effort will shift to a new phase which is what i want to talk about today our new phase will focus on 3 areas 1st. kids children between the ages of 12 and 15 years of age are not yet eligible for a vaccine the f.d.a. scientists are currently reviewing the data to decide if and when authorized that age range for vaccinations the f.d.a. and the f.d.a.

alone will make that decision today i want to merican parents to know that if that announcement comes we are ready to move immediately immediately move to make about 20000 pharmacy sites across the country ready to vaccinate those adolescents as soon as the f.d.a. grants its ok now most americans have a vaccination site about as close as their house is near to a neighborhood school we're also going to slip vaccines directly to the pediatrician and ship them to pediatricians during the following weeks so parents and their children can talk to their family doctor about it and get the shot from a provider they trust the most easy fast and free and if teens are on the move this summer they can get their 1st shot in one place in a 2nd shot elsewhere we know that adolescents are at risk from covert 95 serious

illness at that age range is rare they can still get sick and spread the virus to others so my hope is that if the vaccine is authorized parents will take advantage of it and get their kids vaccinated the 2nd area of focus is making it more convenient for everyone to get a vaccine we know that many adults and not been vaccinated because they have found it too confusing or too difficult or too in convened to get a shot so for those having trouble finding a location or making an appointment we're going to make it easier than ever. we have formally launched a simple website where you can find a vaccination location closest to you that site is vaccines dot gov he said again vaccines dot gov go there now final location to get the shot and make an appointment also today if you prefer texting you have another easy

way to get the shot or text your zip code to the following number 438829 your zip code to that number 438829 you get a text back the location that is nearest you with axes is talk right then and there yes you can text your zip code right now to 438829 and get text back within minutes to places nearest to you to get a vaccination that are available immediately so send this to your kids your grandkids your friends who have not been vaccinated yet and i know some people find making an appointment and an advance in convenience so starting this week we're also going to direct all federal pharmacy partners to begin to provide walk in hours you so be able to get vaccinated without an appointment at the vast majority

of our 40000 pharmacy locations across the country we also are encouraging our state and local partners to have a walk in ability as world of the sites that they run and be getting next week will be shipping new allocations of vaccine to rural health clinics getting more vaccines to more rural clinics so americans who don't live near one of us 75000 vaccinations sites will have new options that may be closer maybe closer than anything they thought. we know that vaccination rates are lower in rural areas and that's why we're going to get vaccines closer than ever to rule residents also as we wind down the large mass vaccination sites we will move toward smaller locations even more convenient to the unvaccinated so for those who don't want to drive the distance to a large vaccination site we'll have sites smaller sites closer to the unvaccinated

and for the 1st 100 days so good news if you're an american coming straight from the president there joe biden outlining the new phases in the vaccination of the american population he's setting new targets also talking about vaccinations for young people ages 12 to 15 and changes to way you can actually get them we'll talk to kambli how could our white house correspondent about this that the thing i saw they can't be is he saying wind down the big vaccination programs and let's get it into neighborhoods and communities where you could go and talk to your doctor or your pharmacist someone who you trust if you had any concerns about it and hopefully that will get more people vaccinated. yeah because i think the headline coming out of the president's announcement is that despite the fact that there's a lot of supply in terms of vaccination here in the us that supply now exceeds the

demand and the real fear is is that people are not going to get vaccinated for a number of different reasons whether it be because it is too difficult to find a location whether it's hard to get to that location or they simply don't understand the technology of maybe having to make the appointment online so what we're seeing is a major shift in health policy from the united states in terms of trying to make what i think is a pretty ambitious goal that's been allying by the u.s. president that is to try by july 4th the american independence day holiday have 70 percent of americans with at least one shot in their arm and right now only about 32 percent of americans are fully vaccinated about 56 percent have at least one shot so this is an ambitious goal you've got the president outlining there how he believes that this can happen walk in appointments getting children vaccinated once that is approved and also making it easy to get an appointment or find

a location simply by texting add to that one of the big problems in roll areas is that there simply isn't the supply we know that the president is going to continue in his remarks to talk about how states that are not using all of their supply will lose it use it or lose it is the phrase and it will be given to other states where it is needed more than kimberly good news for parents so parents particularly of 12 to 15 year old says i mean it's nothing confirmed that he's saying it will be the f.d.a. that makes the final decision on when adolescents can get the shot but again making it available and this has become such a difficult point in the united states hasn't it schooling children protection going to school not going to school in the huge up evil that has for children and parents. yeah and this is where the government is spending tens of millions of dollars in education because their hope is that by august when children start to return to school that that 12 to 15 year age group will be getting vaccinated or

are already vaccinated so they're making it easier the problem is when it comes to the kids they're going to have an uphill battle in the u.s. because there is a lot of vaccine hesitancy not just from adults but especially when it comes to children many in the united states have no problem getting a vaccine as an adult but they're not so sure about their child given the fact that many of them have their reproductive years ahead of them and they're not 100 percent certain about the data so that's going to be a challenge for this government they recognize that that's why they are investing in education as well as science in the data to back up the claim that this is the right way to go in order to get those schools open that's going to be how could i white house correspondent with the latest on joe biden's vaccination drive in the u.s. is ready prime minister benjamin netanyahu is mandated to form a government is going to expire at the end of tuesday just a few hours to go and you know he's been meeting no position policy leaders to secure enough votes to form a coalition if he fails then powell reverts to the president reagan rivlin who gets

to decide what happens next israel is going to this 4 times already 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years. it has been 6 months since the conflict started in ethiopia's a region and refugees continue to flee bringing with them allegations of atrocity and spawns broke out last november between the national army and the to green people's liberation front which had dominated ethiopia's politics and military for nearly 30 years that was until prime and salvia took power 3 years ago the t.p.a. left as its leaders were unfairly targeted of his government says it was they who provoked the conflict by attacking army bases in. all opposition parties say 50000 people have died in the fighting and nearly 62000 of fled to neighboring sudan and then in january well the u.n. reported a high number of rapes integrate soldiers are accused of sexually assaulting internally displaced people in exchange for basic commodities like food which have

become scarce morgan is in gather if in sudan just across the border from ethiopia she has this report. we've been meeting refugees today and yesterday and over the past few weeks we've been speaking to them as well and there's been no shortage of the horrors they witnessed refugees still continue to arrive to sudan despite the numbers being less than what they were when the conflict 1st started but we still see people arriving and they still talk about the atrocities they witness we've heard from children who say that they were separated from their parents as they fled for safety in some of them crossing the border into sudan and some of them remaining back into gray and so those who are here who we speak to say that they're not sure if the ones they left behind are still alive we've also spoken to parents who've left their children and loved ones behind we've spoken to mothers who has been the wives who say that their partners were separated and that they were not sure what happened to them since they were separated sometimes for months so lots of horror stories but the most horrifying allegations that we hear

come from women who say that they were sexually abused by the degree and by the european troops as well as were korean troops they say that they have some. atrocities of sexual violence and and rapes which have been used as a weapon of war that are reports that also came from the united nations and from various human rights groups who say that the eritrean troops are involved in this conflict fighting alongside alongside the europeans who are involved in various atrocities committed against civilians now the european prime minister has described the word as pirates and said that he wants it to end and has promised that they feel the eritrean troops are involved in the conflict fighting alongside the ethiopian troops will withdraw but that is something that the united nations there is yet to happen despite repeated allegations of crimes the return troops are committing integrating. now one of the main protest leaders in thailand has been on hunger strike for 50 days now put it to what uk has been detained since february on

charges of insulting the monarchy and judges have rejected multiple bail requests there are in fact dozens of protesters pushing for reform in the government in the morning he faced similar charges scott hardly has our report from bangkok. for the 10th time a request for bail was submitted at bangkok's criminal court and for a 10th time pro-reform protesters gathered outside. there there to support prod it known as penguin and the movement calling for reform in the government and monarchy . she has been detained since february and faces multiple charges of defaming the monarchy or less majesté each count carries a 15 year prison sentence one of those in the crowd is chief mother. i want to ask the president of the supreme court to direct this in a role or anybody who has power to police i'm certain explained a real reason to dismiss why my son doesn't get bell. the 22 year old has been

on hunger strike for 50 days his personal protest against the court rejecting i spoke to a defiant in january just a few weeks before he was arrested he was not concerned about less majesty also known as article 1121. less much just day is something that is written on a piece of toilet paper nobody stuff is this law no matter how hard they're trying to enforce this law it won't help suppress criticism of the monarchy. the human rights group amnesty international believes the strict has been weaponized by the authorities nearly 80 people have been recently charged including 6 children. the reason that they do not get them get because watching it with the tougher working less like this was always seen as one of the political tools to illicit. one of the latest complaints filed against she followed this protest in front of

a pharmaceutical firm owned by the king she was accusing the royal family of using its influence for the selection and manufacture of covert 1000 vaccines there's a section of society here that strongly supports the monarchy and they see this movement calling for reform within the market as an attack on the foundation of type culture. even though there would be many role families without a monarchy tolland would no longer be thailand and be a different country and i believe that the law isn't used to put. who think differently it's based on fact when. there are also health concerns for another protest leader policy our city g rotten agunah known as run she's been on hunger strike for more than a month after being denied bail 5 times. in what appears to be an attempt to keep protesters off the streets authorities continue to deny bail for the pro-forma leadership i have but the move is having the opposite effect giving protesters

a reason to gather scholar al jazeera bangkok. sports news is coming up with the indian premier league finally succumb to the pressure to shut down.

the obvious what with gemma. this is the indian premier league cricket tournament has been suspended indefinitely after an increase in positive koren of us cases at 4 of the 8 franchises in the last few days the chennai super kings delhi capital's

sunrisers hyderabad and the kolkata knight riders at the team's affected organizers hoped that by moving or main matches to mumbai they could salvage the event but for now it's been brought to hopes the displacement has left australian players in limbo unclear about how they'll get home after the australian government made it illegal for assistance to travel back from india and said at least mid may david warner and pak cummins are among those and now looking at travelling to dubai until they can return home it hasn't taken longer for gerri's a reader to get back into football after being sacked by tottenham at just over 2 weeks ago the portuguese manager has been snapped up by roma on a 3 year contract starting next season the news comes on the same day the italian club announced that current coach ship out if on 2nd would leave the road at the end of the campaign renay then returns to its lay having previously managed intimate i am on the syriac am champions league titles in 2010 manchester city kick off against paris in the 2nd leg of that champions league semi final in the next

few minutes city have a 21 lead from the 1st leg as they look to reach the final of the competition for the 1st time city manager pep guardiola has told his players it to remain calm but it also will in them it's for expect a tougher game and they have in paris last week asked for p.s.g. their top scorer kit it starts the match on the bench as he hasn't fully recovered from a cough problem they do still have name of a. genius team it's make the most of any opportunities they get now imagine that facing a crucial semi final without one of your most experienced players well that was the situation around madrid or in the head of their 2nd leg with chelsea that was until a good samaritan stepped in to help defend marcel i would think who to mandatory a polling station do. the regional elections in the spanish capital and the team couldn't get him excused even for such a big game but a lady agreed to step in for the brazilian even though she didn't know who he was and last that he was able to join his route team mates to travel to london just in

time the 2 sides a tied one all from the 1st leg teams him like over 1000 cases all mandatory quarantine your a $22.00 and a half their games to spend up to 40 hours to get new players in that applies to those with fewer than 13 players that's one of the extra rules european football's governing body you weigh 5 brought in to help teams cope amid the pandemic countries will also be allowed 26 months squats that's 3 more players than usual although only $23.00 can be named on the match sheet for each individual fixture. while the walls of travel stay high because of the pandemic a group of skate board has taken advantage they filled the empty terminal at new orleans louis armstrong apple with ramps took a foam tricks for inventive it made it somebody to some class because it was inspired by levels in the tony hawk video games in the ninety's and it is about say i used to play it regularly when i was a child that is ok i'll settle for now obvious back with more late nights thank you

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